16I rejoice therefore that I have confidence in you in all things.
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And I wrote this same unto you, lest, when I came, I should have sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice; having confidence in you all, that my joy is the joy of you all.
Wherefore, though I might be much bold in Christ to enjoin thee that which is convenient,
Having confidence in thy obedience I wrote unto thee, knowing that thou wilt also do more than I say.
And we have confidence in the Lord touching you, that ye both do and will do the things which we command you.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 12-16)In these verses the apostle endeavours to comfort the Corinthians, upon whom his admonitions had had such good effect. And in order thereto, 1. He tells them he had a good design in his former epistle, which might be thought severe, 2 Cor. 7:12. It was not chiefly for his cause that did the wrong , not only for his benefit, much less merely that he should be punished; nor was it merely for his cau…
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